We always knew Dana was a winner, but now everyone knows it.

Recognized for both her business accomplishments and charitable work, CAWOOD Vice President Dana Turell accepted a prestigious 20 Under 40 Award at an inaugural event held at the Eugene Hilton last night.

With more than 250 guests in attendance, the awards were bestowed upon amazing up-and-coming business leaders in our community, who not only succeed professionally, but also contribute to the community through their philanthropy.

Dana leads our interactive initiative, which includes public websites, a development website and an internal CAWOOD “wiki.” In the community, Dana has helped increase donations for FOOD for Lane County and recently coordinated a multi-pronged partnership to increase awareness about breast health as part of “Go Pink in the Park” with the Eugene Emeralds and Oregon Imaging Centers. Dana is also an active member of her church and leads the First Place for Health program.

In addition, two CAWOOD clients were also awarded with 20 Under 40 Awards. Congratulations to Josh Kermisch of Oregon Imaging Centers and Dr. Michael Koester of the Slocum Center for Orthopedics & Sports Medicine.

A complete list of winners is available online at http://www.registerguard.com/web/business/ or in the December issue of blue chip, Lane County’s monthly business magazine published by The Register-Guard, which sponsored the event with along with title sponsor and CAWOOD client Mercedes-Benz of Eugene.We’re very proud of Dana and all her accomplishments. Way to go!

If you ask me, it was a recipe for success: stir in equal parts health care, athletics and marketing, then top with the color pink. The final result: a deliciously good campaign.

For those of you who didn’t get out to Civic Stadium on Wednesday nights last summer, you missed all the fun of Go Pink in the Park.

On Wednesday home games, the Eugene Emeralds baseball team wore pink jerseys to promote breast cancer awareness and Oregon Imaging Centers set up the Komen for the Cure tent. Inside the tent, OIC had a Wii homerun derby, pink “Make time for the girls” T-shirts, awareness bracelets and a drawing for the autographed pink jerseys.

From my view inside the tent, I think everyone who participated in Go Pink in the Park had a great time. We had repeat customers on the Wii home run derby, women who bought T-shirts for everyone in their office and lots and lots of donations for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Over the course of the summer, the Eugene community helped raise more than $10,000 for breast cancer research.

To learn more about the promotion, visit www.cawoodchange.com or, to view news clips and photos from Go Pink, go to www.cawooddevelopment.com/oic/pink/